Lets play a little game: Round 4

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Thats right folks, were here for yet another round of 'Lets play a little game' our popular Linux Q&A brought to you by the PBC

Current standings put Shanyboy in the lead, with AJ bringing up the rear, lets see if we can turn the tables in this extended round!

thats right folks, this round consists of 15 questions, not just your usual 5, so heres your chance to play catchup

Here goes..

1. What command lists information about your CPU and its specs? - SimonV
2. Bash, the popular shell used in GNU/Linux was recently upgraded to what version from what version? - shaunyboy
3. Many distributions recently moved from the classic Xfree86 to Xorg, what was the reason? - shaunyboy
4. UNIX time is an integer based on what?
5. What are the two codenames for Debians current release version, and its current testing version? - nugget
6. which command precedes this line 'xxxx -t reiserfs /dev/hda2 /var/mail'
7. Which program configures Xfree86 via the command line? - shaunyboy
8. Bash is a popular shell, list the shells used by default in Mac OS X (Root) and FreeBSD (Root)
9. List the two most popular Window managers used in Linux - nugget
10. List two OTHER window managers used in Linux - nugget
11. What is a Beowulf? - SimonV
12. What is a Run Level? and how many are there? - nugget
13. What is an alias? give an example for creating the alias ll for ls -l - shaunyboy
14. Which command lists currently connected users and there terminal number? - shaunyboy
15. Which key combination switches between Linux consoles? - shaunyboy
    
    Answers on a postcard folks, better get in quick, this round cound change the leaderboard by a long shot, if you havn't allready joined in, nows your chance, you could secure 15 points in one go!
    
    Good luck
    

 

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1. cat /proc/cpuinfo
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11. A network of relatively inexpensive computers (including PCs), potentially using different processors and hardware architectures, united by GNU/Linux and special system-level software into a massively parallel computing system, so that all of the computers work as one computer. A good cheap way to have a supercomputer


Not got time for anymore.

 

im going to give you 11
there is a touch more too it, and even more too it if you believe in the purists but I wasnt looking for a full run down
good job mate

 

3. better,more secure, more stable
6. mnt
9. KDE. Gnome
11. Beowulf is a cluster of supercomputers
12. Simply put, a 'runlevel' determines which programs are executed at sytem startup. 7 run levels
0 System Halt
1 Single user
2 Full multi-user mode (Default)
3-5 Same as 2
6 System Reboot

 

10. [font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]AfterStep, Enlightenment, and for bonus points IceWM and FVWM
5. woody 3.0 and sarge 3.1
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giving you three nugget

just double checking your run level answer, i think it may be wrong, conferring with a friend

and 3 and 6 are wrong but im guessing 6 being wrong is not your fault ;)

 

XF86Config is the command line for xfree86, I think there are 5 runlevels , a run level determines how the system boots eg which services etc.

Thinking about it I have run kill -9 for stubborn programs so I shall risk it and say there are 9 runlevels.

Is it ctrl-altfunction key to move between the consoles?

Tricky quiz Ryan!!

 

This is what I found on the net

12. Simply put, a 'runlevel' determines which programs are executed at sytem startup. This is what I found on the net

12. In Linux, runlevels define how the system is started. This is what I found in my book.

I made a mistake here, I only knew of 7 but my book mentions an eighth
S Single user mode; from the boot prompt, only with US keyboard

0 System Halt
1 Single user mode
2 Local multiuser mode without remote network
3 Full multi-user mode with network (Default)
4 not used
5 Full multi-user mode with network and X display manager
6 System Reboot


Another stab at 6. tune2fs

 

thats better mate, 12 goes to you :P
good job!

 

Bash 3.0 replaced 2.05?

I think xfree86 started talking about or introducing licenses that some people didn't like. Not sure about the details.

An alias allows a command with arguments to be run by using a user-defined string eg alias ll = 'ls -l'

'who' gives users and terminal.

You learn something new everyday!!

 

good one shauny
a 4 point comeback, putting you back in the lead i think

liscence was the word i was looking for, and you said it

 

2 more points to be had before pheo takes them

lets see if we can get them soon!

 

4. Unix time is based on UTC

 

8. By default, on a FreeBSD system, root's login shell is csh (the C shell)

On MAC OS X the default shell is tcsh. The available user shells also include bash, csh, sh, and zsh; bash is the default for shell scripts instead of zsh as in earlier versions of Mac OS X.